Serving as first assistant director on Napoleon Dynamite (2004) certainly gave first time filmmaker Tim Skousen a template for some of the character creations and mullet-head protagonists for The Sasquatch Gang – formerly known as the Slamdance entry winner of The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang. The comedy features the Mac vs. PC tv comm dude Justin Long and it got picked up fairly quickly after the fest but has sat on the shelve for a while – until now. Screen Media will be putting out the laugher in select cities December 7th. Below we have the synopsis, poster one sheet and youtube trailer.
When Gavin Gore and his three friends, Hobie, Maynard, and Sophie go for a hike up to Deer Cliff Falls, they discover some suspicious footprints and scat that they assume can only be from one source—Bigfoot. They quickly decide to alert police and the media of the find and start a small sensation in their town. Bullies make fun of Gavin and suggest the tracks are a hoax leading to a showdown that hinges on the authenticity of the footprints in the mud. But even as Gavin and his friends seek to prove the validity of their own claims, their dimwitted neighbors Zerk (Justin Long) and Shirts are on a quest of their own to save their precious Pontiac Firebird from being repossessed by the bank. Zerk comes up with the idea that they should sell plaster casts made from the Bigfoot tracks online. All seems to be running smoothly until a self proclaimed Bigfoot expert comes to town to verify if the tracks are really from Bigfoot. Suddenly, the profitability of their operation is in jeopardy based on the diagnosis of Dr. Artimus Snodgrass, Sasquatch expert. Is it a hoax? Will Zerk and Shirts save their precious car? Will Gavin get pummeled by bullies or will he be the victor and make out with the girl of his dreams?
